Borders Revisited

Bastian A. Vollmer is Professor of Social Sciences at the Catholic University of Applied Sciences in Mainz, Germany. Previously, he was a Fellow at the University of Oxford. He is author and co-editor of several books and special issues, and he has published in journals such as Political Geography, Mobilities, Geopolitics and Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. He is co-editor of the journal Migration Studies and an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

• 1. Introduction.- 2: Border histories and architectures.- 3. EU borders, UK borders and the state of migration.- 4. Border ontologies and border meanings.- 5. New horizons.